Records show Mississippi's surplus agency received household supplies, including dinnerware sets, towels, shirts, pants, shoes and cleaning items.

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Additionally, the bank has served as an incubator for social programs including the youth music group Companhia Bate Palmas, a vocational school, food security projects geared toward women, a general store and Palma brand clothing and cleaning items.

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World Vision has a team headed into the disaster zone with emergency food kits, blankets, cleaning supplies, hygiene items and tarps.

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They include cleaning and sterilizing all nondisposable items such as dental tools between patients, disinfecting surfaces and requiring staff members to wear protective masks, gloves and eye wear.

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They include cleaning and sterilizing all non-disposable items such as dental tools between patients, disinfecting surfaces and requiring staff members to wear protective masks, gloves and eye wear.

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Some of the items were said to have sentimental value to their owners and could not be replaced, while other items included toilet roll and cleaning products which she then took back days later.

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Among the items on it will be general cleaning up, debilitated land, fleeing tourists and extra spending on emergency services and health care.

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